Paleo posted this in the "Make a scientist smile" thread, but it REALLY belongs here:

(30-12-2013 11:03 AM)Paleophyte Wrote: Three engineers are sitting at a bar arguing over which type of engineer God is.

"It's obvious that God is a mechanical engineer." proclaims the mechanical engineer as he tosses back his scotch. "All you have to do is look at the way the skeleton, muscles, tendons and ligaments all interact. The perfection of the shoulder ball and socket joint. The marvel of the human hand. Hell, you can balance a small car on a single femur without exceeding it's load-bearing capacity."

"God has to be an electrical engineer." muses the electrical engineer as he knocks back another shot of tequila. "I'll grant you that the physical aspects are impressive but when you get right down to it they're little more than hardware. The most powerful computing system on the planet made from a few hundred cc's of neurons, sodium-gated ion channels and neuropeptides. Now that's what I call elegant design!"

"God? God hazh got ta be a shivil engzineer!" slurs the civil engineer over his flat beer. "The hell you say!" cries the mechanical engineer. "How do you figure that?" sneers the electrical engineer. The civil engineer looks up at his two colleagues with blood-shot eyes and gleefully replies, "Who the fuck else would have piped the sewage outflow through the recreation area?"

Dreams/Hallucinations/delusions are not evidenceWishful thinking is not evidenceDisproved statements&Illogical conclusions are not evidenceLogical fallacies&Unsubstantiated claims are not evidenceVague prophecies is not evidenceData that requires a certain belief is not evidence